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On the recordJuly 31, 2019
I announce that the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Bennet), the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Coons), the Senator from New York (Mrs. Gillibrand), the Senator from California (Ms. Harris), the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the Senator from Massachusetts (Ms. Warren). (Mr. TILLIS assumed the Chair.) The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Cotton). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 54, nays 36, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 253 Ex.] YEAS--54 Alexander Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Jones Kennedy Lankford Lee Manchin McConnell McSally Moran Murkowski Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Romney Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sinema Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Wicker Young NAYS--36 Baldwin Blumenthal Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Hassan Heinrich Hirono Kaine King Leahy Markey Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Peters Reed Rosen Schatz Schumer Shaheen Smith Stabenow Tester Udall Van Hollen Warner Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--10 Bennet Booker Burr Coons Gillibrand Harris Isakson Klobuchar Sanders Warren The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jul 31, 2019

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